Can a Couple of Techies Revolutionize Campaigning?

Joe Green and Jim Gilliam are going to try, with NationBuilder.

How Yahoo Killed Flickr

And Lost the Internet. Gizmodo.

On community:

"The milestones for that acquisition were all based around integrating that local event data into Yahoo. Yahoo didn't care about Upcoming's users—the community that created the data. Yahoo's approach turned out to be completely backwards. The value of the the company was determined by the index itself, rather than how the index was built—which is to say, by the community.

It was a stunning failure in vision, and more or less the same thing happened at Flickr. All Yahoo cared about was the database its users had built and tagged. It didn't care about the community that had created it or (more importantly) continuing to grow that community by introducing new features."

And Then There's Facebook

Is it making us lonely? Or do we get what we put in? Stephen Marche takes a look.

Sometimes, When Technology Works, It Works Hard

Saroo found his village, and ultimately his mother, using Google Earth: 25 years after getting lost at age 5.

Theatrevolution

Jaan Whitehead challenges us to explore new avenues in creating and funding theatre.